Charles Hallum

Charles Hallum was a Tory doctor from Hackensack, New Jersey.

Biography
Charles Hallum was a doctor residing in Hackensack Township, New Jersey, and he chose to side with Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Hallum was wealthy, living in a comfortable home; Hallum decided to spend some of his money on ordering a bust of King George III of Britain made by Patience Wright. On the night of 18 October 1777, the bust was delivered to his home, and Nathaniel Sackett of the Committee to Detect and Defeat Conspiracies sent Caleb Brewster to capture the bust before Hallum knew that it had arrived; the bust contained information on King George's suffering economy, and Hallum believed that the bust had been lost when the American privateer Revenge attacked the HMS Margaretta off Long Island. Brewster succeeded in stealing the information and escaping Hallum's house alive, and Robert Rogers - hired by the King to stop the bust from being stolen - walked away from the house thinking that a privateer stole the bust.